The next day we followed a very nice breadbaking workshop at B&B
Hoeve Te Gast. Baker Nico Botman taught me and 7
fellow ‘baking students” how to make delicious breads, cookies and various other
delicious bakes.

The workshop was very well organised and included a lunch
with homemade bread and jam in the farmhouse's country kitchen (heated by an AGA, which I
instantly fell in love with). We left with a bag filled to the
rim with our creations.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Last October I followed a workshop in jam- and chutney making
with Kitty Penninga.

I met Kitty last spring on the spring-fair at the Olmenhorst where she was selling her home made and sugarfree jams and chutney’s. Back
then I stocked up on deliciousness’s and bought her recipe booklet as well. I
gave sugerfree jam making a try with one of my bramble jam batches I made last
autumn. For conservation Kitty uses honey, for thickening she uses pectin
powder, sometimes dissolved in a small splash of liquor..

As I never made chutneys before, I wanted to learn all about
it during a workshop.

During the workshop in a professional kitchen we made
clementine-jam, quince-jam, cooking pear-chutney and pumpkin-chutney. We had a
lot of fun working on the products and the results were delicious. Afterwards I
went home heavily stocked: I can really recommend Kitty’s (…)
workshops.

Sunday, October 12, 2014

My kitchen was already in my house when I moved in. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it; plenty of storage space, plenty of worktops, but... it was a bit dull...
There was something about the door pulls that I disliked, so for quite some time I was on the lookout for new ones. I needed 15 of them, and I was not planning on spending a lot of money on them, as it was just going to be a cosmetic improvement.Then I found a lot second-hand on Marktplaats a couple of weeks ago!

Getting inspired by photographs of kitchens on Pinterest, I decided to paint the walls of the kitchen in a warm grey.... but which warm grey? So I went to the local DIY store to pick up some colour swatches, which I stuck on the wall for a while.

Friday, September 12, 2014

And the keepsake's that come with it..
..what to do with those? Put them in some drawer to forget about? That would be a shame, as I am kind of proud of the accomplishments...
..and then I came across this on Pinterest!

Sunday, August 17, 2014

This afternoon I was changing my thin summer duvet for the thicker one, while it was raining cats and dogs outside. Summer seems to have ended. What is that, with 'time' lately? It goes by so very quickly, as if someone has hit the fast forward button (well, except for weekdays between 9 and 5 that is...).

I have enjoyed a lovely summer, have been quite busy with all sorts of things; time to catch up!